Christina Koch

Artemis II was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program and the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis II was the second flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by the four-person crew.

Christina Hammock Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her mission to the International Space Station in 2019–20 she was part of the first all‑female spacewalk and set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman. On the Artemis II lunar flyby mission in April 2026, which set the record for human distance from Earth, Koch became the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit and to travel around the Moon.

Russian crewed mission to the ISS

Russian crewed mission to the ISS

Long-duration mission to the International Space Station

60th long-duration stay on the International Space Station

61st long-duration stay on the International Space Station

photograph taken by NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman

group of astronauts selected in 2013